Try Your Luck at Guinea Pig Gambling

If you are looking for some entertainment on the streets of Bogota, try your luck at Guinea Pig Gambling...

Excerpt from The Entrepreneurial Spirit at its Finest: Gambling on Guinea PigsWe see Colombia’s entrepreneurial spirit every day but perhaps the best and most entertaining example is guinea pig gambling. It can best be described as guinea pig roulette where there are 15 overturned bowls forming a semi-circle, each with a guinea pig-sized entrance cut out for the guinea pig to enter. The bowls are numbered 1 through 15 and the spectators place money on their bowl of choice. Once there are bets on every bowl, the guinea pig wrangler takes one of his trained pets and places it a few yards from the bowls where it sits patiently. When the wrangler gives the guinea pig a little tap on the head, the ball of fur cautiously makes its way to the bowls, keeping the crowd in suspense until it enters the winning bowl. The coins are then collected from the losing bowls and the winning-bowl-better gets their money back, and then some.

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